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GOLD
Definition of GOLD
noun
A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English gold, from Old English gold (“gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Related to yellow; see there for more. Germanic cognates include Scots gowd, Dutch goud, German Gold, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk gull, Danish and Swedish guld, and cognates from other Indo-European languages include Latvian zelts, Russian зо́лото (zóloto), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow, golden”), Sanskrit हिरण्य (hiraṇya).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,589)
How it is built
Same root, GOLD · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit, Scots and 1 more.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GOLD in OUTLIER
It has fitted 2 boards so far. 49 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GOLD starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DGLO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GOLD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GOLD?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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